HUGHES
,
DAVID
(
1785
-
1850
),
cleric and author
;
son of
DanielHughes
,
Trefilan, Cards.
He was educated at
Ystrad Meurig
, and
Jesus College
,
Oxford
, where he graduated
B.A.
in
1806
and
M.A.
in
1809
. In
1805
he began work as
corrector
, for the
Oxford University Press
, of the revised edition of the
Welsh
Bible
which ultimately appeared in
1809
; and in
1806
he was elected
scholar
of
Jesus College
. Ordained in the diocese of
Oxford
(?), he was in
Dec. 1808
instituted to the living of
Hirnant,
near
Llangynog, Mont.
, though he does not seem to have resided there. In
Nov. 1813
he was instituted to the rectory of
Llanfyllin
, where he lived till his death on
11 April 1850
; he was buried at
Llanfyllin
. He is described as ‘a distinguished character as a
Mathematician
,
Hebrew and classical scholar
, and a man of
very superior piety.’ He was a
public examiner
at
Oxford
,
1810-11
.

Sources:

Eminent Welshmen: a short biographical dictionary of Welshmen ... from the earliest times to the present
, 1908
;